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CoffeeScript vs Grain: What are the differences?

What is CoffeeScript? Unfancy JavaScript. CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. Underneath that awkward Java-esque patina, JavaScript has always had a gorgeous heart. CoffeeScript is an attempt to expose the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way.

What is Grain? A strongly-typed functional programming language. Grain is a strongly-typed functional programming language built for the modern web. Unlike other languages used on the web today (like TypeScript or Elm), Grain doesn’t compile into JavaScript. Grain complies all the way down to WebAssembly, and is supported by a tiny JavaScript runtime to give Grain access to web features that WebAssembly doesn’t yet support.

CoffeeScript and Grain belong to "Languages" category of the tech stack.

CoffeeScript and Grain are both open source tools. It seems that CoffeeScript with 15.2K GitHub stars and 1.99K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Grain with 1.21K GitHub stars and 21 GitHub forks.

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Pros of CoffeeScript

Pros of Grain

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Easy to read
179
Faster to write
126
Syntactic sugar
104
Readable
104
Elegant
73
Pretty
53
Javascript the good parts
48
Open source
44
Classes
35
"it's just javascript"
16
Compact code
15
Easy
13
Simple
13
Not Javascript
2
Does the same with less code
1
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Cons of CoffeeScript

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No ES6
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Corner cases in syntax
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Parentheses required in 0-ary function calls
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Unclear what will be grouped to {…}

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What is CoffeeScript?

It adds syntactic sugar inspired by Ruby, Python and Haskell in an effort to enhance JavaScript's brevity and readability. Specific additional features include list comprehension and de-structuring assignment.

What is Grain?

Grain is a strongly-typed functional programming language built for the modern web. Unlike other languages used on the web today (like TypeScript or Elm), Grain doesn’t compile into JavaScript. Grain complies all the way down to WebAssembly, and is supported by a tiny JavaScript runtime to give Grain access to web features that WebAssembly doesn’t yet support.

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What are some alternatives to CoffeeScript and Grain?

JavaScript

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

TypeScript

TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It's a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.

ES6

Goals for ECMAScript 2015 include providing better support for large applications, library creation, and for use of ECMAScript as a compilation target for other languages. Some of its major enhancements include modules, class declarations, lexical block scoping, iterators and generators, promises for asynchronous programming, destructuring patterns, and proper tail calls.

Babel

Babel will turn your ES6+ code into ES5 friendly code, so you can start using it right now without waiting for browser support.

jQuery

jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.

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